Thursday
Mar102011
This is beautiful
Thursday, March 10, 2011 at 2:48PM Mesmerising. Via football uber site The Run of Play, animator Richard Swarbrick presents Bones Like Ghosts. Gareth Bale versus Inter highlights unlike any dvd you're likely to pick up at the club shop. Hauntingly good.
The kid is dreamy even as a cartoon.
Reader Comments (30)
looks like Football Manager on the Spectrum, awesome!
Lush.
Brings tears to my eyes!
Such creativity...beautiful!
Been on about 5 other blogs already, but still had to watch it again. Richard Swarbrick is very talented.
Reminds me of an old football manager game on the Spectrum 128k+2
Starsky, I just saw your comment!!
How good was "The Wall" (Sandro) last night?!!!
I've seen this on another site and like most others was initially (dumb)struck by the sheer beauty of the clip.
However, the timing of the animation is so eerily similar to the authentic clip that it makes me wonder if in fact this is not hand-drawn but merely the original clip has been imported to some program and converted to 'handdrawn effect'....
Either way it looks nice.
"I'm happy with that film for the time being"
Nervous - I'd agree that it's been done as a sketch overlay from the original footage.
Regardless though, it's very good.
mighty fine
i should add, worthy of a place in the gallery too spooks!!
WOW!
I am overwhelmed with joy watching this! Fantastique!!!
It's been doing the rounds but well worth revisiting so thanks for posting. How they get the cartoon to echo the real live footage so accurately -- must have taken them ages to draw it!
Should have a picture of a taxi at the end really!
@cyril.......
ITK?
After the nervousness of last night, watching this cartoon has really brought home all that we've achieved. Nice one!
That is what my sexiest dreams look like.
TMI?
Stunning.
A bit twee of me perhaps, but I hope Gareth himself has seen that. I hope when he's a very old man he can watch that little film and remember what it was to personify beauty and perfection and glory.
Despite the multitudes of insanely talented footballers in the world, I've never seen anyone make something like this before. It's wonderfully fitting that something this beautiful comes from Spurs.
We rule that goddamn town!
@devonyid ... never knowingly ITK, no.
Just a rather laboured joke, seeing as it was clearly (brilliantly) superimposed over the original video.
Or were you referring to my taxi post devonyid? Wasn't trying to be ITK about Gareth if that's what you mean; just a reference to their hapless Brazilian fullback and his supporting role in the video!
That first Inter game just about sums up what it is to be a Spurs fan.
What it is being a Spurs fan? We are the only fans I know that if we were 5-0 up at half time and cruising would still be nervous about the second half and if we were 4-0 down at half time would seriously be thinking we still have a chance to nick this one. Our team can and does go from the sublime to the ridiculous and back sometimes several times in a match and they drag us along with them for the (roller coaster) ride and......... we wouldnt have it any other way!
I think other fans hate us because we'd never change it for the world.
For me, this is about the creation of myth. The blurred action unfolds as if through gauze, and seems a window on a world long ago and far away. I’m reminded of the grainy black-and-white images from the European Cup Winners Cup Final in 1963 when, out of the mist (like here), lilywhite figures floated like intangible ghosts (including ‘The Ghost’ himself) through hapless files of striped soldiers.
The faces and the names from that victorious knot of our history are still just recognisable as men; but time and legend have largely withdrawn them behind a veil into the realm of shadows and demi-gods.
So it is with this rendering of Bale’s and his fellow phantoms’ exploits. The indistinct action artificially brings down upon a boy wonder the screen of time-worn mystery – a lad who, like some modern Prince Hal, instrumentally turns disaster into glorious failure and ultimate triumph. ‘This story shall the good man teach his son.’ In these quivering frames we witness the stuff of legends turning into tribal myth.
Or maybe it’s just a cute bit of animation. :O)
bliss...
Would love to see the Ricky Villa goal of 81 done this way.